"Yep, there's the hitch."
"Fucking. Always."
"Quiet, you two. Be serious. And to you there, we our individual names are unimportant. We are soldiers of the Imperial Mechera Army, here to take this world in the name of our leader, Gregory Falzone. Who would you be?" The middle one said, arrogantly. They didn't know the area, but the organization knew there were diplomats here. They, therefor, acted as though the grassy field, and the trees themselves were normal for this planet, as per their briefing.
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"No! Well, yes. Kinda. Not really. Er..."
"She means to say she doesn't know. None of us have any idea whats going on right now. Those are military model Mechera over there, to be sure, but not just any; that model is a prototype designed to test new technologies, and isn't even known to the general public. We only know because Mechera Weapons Labs report to the Harmony sectors of government, not Hostility, in order to keep our weaponry mostly human and to prevent some power-mad general from secretly developing new weapons to use in a coup. Logically, this all means its a full-fledged declaration of war. However, both standard and nonstandard operating proceedure for times of war are to evacuate all Mechera diplomats and ambassadors, or at least give fair warning to them, at least a good month or so in advance, and judging on location, they looked to be headed for a civilian sector. Our empire wholeheartedly disbelieves in harming civilians, even during war, and its considered a war-crime by our government for a soldier to do so, with punishments ranging from viral infection, data corruption, 'repurposing', to even capital punishment for the worst senarios. What Im trying to say is, there isn't a logical expanation for it. It cant be the government, because they obviously aren't worried about us or civilians, which would probably mean they'd attack from orbit than on-world, yet it must be because only they have that tech..."